Hiding Behind The Human Rights Act
By
EURSOC Two
Published:
11 July, 2007
The government invokes the European Convention on Human Rights to explain why foreign terrorists cannot be detained or expelled. Is this really the case?
Britain has come under attack from three different species of Islamist terrorist in two years. First, the home-grown Yorkshire Lads, whose families spoke of their love of cricket and fish & chips - and who blew themselves up along with 50 others in London two years ago. A fortnight later, another batch had their chance: The four men who tried to cause similar slaughter and have just been sentenced to life imprisonment were migrants from the war-torn nations of Eritrea, Somalia and Ethiopia. All four entered the UK seeking escape from their troubled homelands; all four were taken in, housed and cared for by the people they later tried to murder.
Then, just two weeks ago, comes a third type: Educated middle-class professionals from Iran and Palestine working as doctors in Britain's National Health Service, while plotting al-Qaeda-inspired mass murder in London and Glasgow.
And these, we are told, are the tip of the iceberg. The police are said to be monitoring 200 suspected terrorist cells. Doubtless some are British-born terrorists, but numerous others are migrants or those who have come to Britain seeking asylum. When newspapers and opposition MPs call for the deportation or imprisonment of these terrorists, the government points to activist lawyers in the courts and shrugs its collective shoulders: "We can't deport them to places where they face imprisonment and torture: It's against the Human Rights Act."
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